Blue Grass and Brown Whiskey: Southern Foodways Alliance Field Trip

Registration is now open for the Southern Foodways Alliance Field Trip to Louisville dubbed Blue Grass and Brown Whiskey.

The weekend, July 11-13, 2008, will let you dine on some of Louisville’s best food, drink some outstanding cocktails as well as experience panels and discussions on Louisville culture and the state of small Kentucky farms.

Join the Southern Foodways Alliance as we travel to
Louisville, Kentucky, home of the “most exciting two minutes in
sports,” and the arguable birthplace of the old fashioned.

We’ll
play dainty, an only-in-Louisville game, in the streets of the city’s
Schnitzelburg neighborhood. We’ll gather in the Rathskeller, beneath a
tooled leather ceiling, to toast the work of Minnie Fox and the African
American cooks she honored in the Blue Grass Cookbook.

We’ll
taste Benedictine spread and Henry Bain sauce. We’ll sip brown whiskey
from the state’s best distillers and red wine from grapes raised by a
onetime tobacco farmer. We will dine on fried catfish at the All Wool
and a Yard Wide Democratic Club. And farm-fresh fare at Lilly’s. We’ll
sample bourbon-marinated smoked fish. And bourbon barrel-aged sorghum.

The
region’s best scholars will show us the way, providing context and
amplification. Smart talking and great eating (and drinking), that’s
what we promise.